The political economy of Medicare. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Medicare spends more than $200 billion a year; the politics surrounding the Medicare program cannot be fully understood without an adequate appreciation of that fact. An understanding of the political economy of Medicare is perhaps best achieved by thinking along three dimensions: (1) Medicare as redistributive politics; (2) Medicare as special-interest politics; and (3) Medicare as distributive politics. Seeing the extent to which Medicare policies flow from these political processes makes clear that Medicare reform and broader political reform are, at some level, inseparable and indistinguishable.

publication date

  • January 1, 1999

Research

keywords

  • Health Policy
  • Medicare
  • Politics

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0038920742

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1377/hlthaff.18.1.22

PubMed ID

  • 9926643

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 18

issue

  • 1